As the U.S. government and war profiteers amplify their calls for a proxy war with Russia in Syria, and as the establishment media beats the same drums of war, we must not forget that we have a voice that rings just as loud in support of peace.

U.S. Army soldiers representing units participating in the the Anaconda-16 military exercise, attend the opening ceremony, in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, June 6, 2016. Poland and some NATO members launched their biggest ever exercise, involving some 31,000 troops in a show of force to neighboring Russia.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama met with senior policy advisors in the National Security Council on Friday to discuss military options in response to Russian actions targeting the U.S.-backed Syrian arm of Al-Qaida, the Nusra Front, and other Western- and Saudi-backed mercenaries operating in eastern Aleppo.

However, these very real dangers haven’t prevented the establishment media from promoting the government and war profiteers’ calls for military intervention for “humanitarian purposes,” the most likely outcome of which is a military quagmire similar to what unfolded in Libya after the U.S.-backed coup or worse.

The media is openly beating the drums of war and parroting Cold War rhetoric while calling on Obama to take action in Syria. In the midst of this, Americans are being led to believe that Russia is not just the enemy, but the one responsible for worsening Middle East conflicts.

That’s the exact opposite of the truth, though. With the Department of Defense’s annual PR budget averaging $626 million, it’s no wonder most Americans support some sort of U.S. military action in Syria. An anti-war campaign partnered with alternative media and spread through public forums like Facebook and Twitter could effectively nullify the Pentagon’s warmongering.

The next World War

Russian army soldiers drive their tanks along the Red Square during a general rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade.

Through months of wrangling in Syria in hopes of ousting President Bashar Assad and ostensibly fighting Daesh (an Arabic acronym for the terrorist group known as ISIS or ISIL in the West, which WikiLeaks recently revealed is funded and assisted by U.S. ally Saudi Arabia), the United States has succeeded most of all in provoking Syria’s allies. By providing weapons and bombs to the Saudis, such as last year’s $1.29 billion smart bomb sale (weapons, it must be noted, that the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition indiscriminately drops on civilians), and by crafting a narrative which states that Russia has acted aggressively despite the fact that no such evidence exists, American politicians and militarist warmongers have soured many ties in the region.

After complicating the situation in Syria, the United States has now officially entered the war in Yemen, firing missiles into territory reportedly occupied by the Houthi rebels. This has infuriated not only the Iranian government, but also the governments of Russia and China, whose ships have been spotted in the same Gulf of Aden waters from which the U.S. Navy ship fired missiles in response to an unproven claim it had been fired upon.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, various Russian officials, and, in particular, Russian state media have excoriated the White House for needless aggression and support of Saudi Arabia. A notorious human rights abuser, Saudi Arabia is the most denounced, perhaps even the most hated nation in the Middle East.

Russian officials have also admonished the United States over its continued, uninvited involvement in Syria, stating that U.S. actions there could put the world on an irreversible course toward all-out war. On Tuesday, Lt. Gen. Viktor Poznikhir of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff said the United States’ “illusion of invulnerability and impunity” could lead to Washington “lowering the threshold of nuclear weapons use to preempt enemy actions.”

Coincidently, Russia recently undertook an annual drill to prepare civilians and emergency responders to react swiftly in the event of a nuclear attack. Larger military drills have become an annual event in recent years, but this year, for the first time, the country tested an emergency management system “that allows the Defense Ministry to assume direct control over municipal and regional authorities, police, state security and emergency services,” according to Russian state media outlet RT.

This perilous course the Pentagon insists is necessary, as well as politicians’ continued insistence on the altogether farcical “Russian aggression” narrative, will have resoundingly profound consequences for the countries involved in the geopolitical military dance, as well as the wholly innocent civilians unfortunate enough to be located therein.

We need an anti-war movement, now

Anti-war demonstrators Mass on the Ellipse in Washington on May 9, 1970.

In light of what these dark portents indicate, an anti-war campaign is more imperative than ever. We need an effort similar to that which erupted against proposed war with Syria in 2013. While those efforts successfully managed to delay official military involvement, this time it should be notably more expansive.

While some will undoubtedly rebuke such a campaign as laughable in the face of unflinching political obstinance, it would be better to make the attempt and stand on the right side of history.

If we don’t try, we cannot possibly succeed. And in this case, failure would, at minimum, result in a more informed public.

For those who haven’t yet started following these current events, it’s time to start. Alternative media has done a brilliant job of countering the government-backed corporate media narrative, and it is an excellent resource for the un- and mis-informed. Pass that information along to others.

To effectively bring about an anti-war campaign centered around the United States’ proxy war with Russia on such a massive scale, one method would be to share topically-appropriate articles and memes with the hashtags #NoWarWithRussia and #PeaceWithRussia. When possible, include the additional hashtags of the nation the article focuses on, such as #Syria or #Yemen.

Additionally, for those so inclined, alternative media has created profile pictures and cover photos for social media to align with this anti-war campaign.

American leaders have been bought out by by special interests that profit from human casualties, so governments often do not represent the will of their populace. In its quest to undertake wars for profit and control of natural resources, the United States has become a prime example of this.

While civilians in the countries directly affected by American bombs have an obviously negative view of Americans, if we demand peace from our government, we can at least show the world that we don’t back these military actions.

To live peacefully without threat to innocent lives, after all, is most everyone’s goal. To that end, we implore the United States to stand down:

AS SUBORDINATES OF THE ROTHSCHILD-BILDERBERG EMPIRE, WASHINGTON, ISRAEL AND SAUDI ARABIA BUILT AND OPERATE AL QAEDA, ISIS AND THE OTHER TERRORIST GROUPS OPERATING IN SYRIA (and elsewhere) TO DESTABILIZE COUNTRIES AND ESTABLISH A “CALIPHATE” THAT WOULD “COOPERATE” WITH THE EMPIRE.

LIKE THE TERRORIST GROUPS THEMSELVES, THAT CALIPHATE WOULD BE JUST AS OPPRESSIVE AND VICIOUS AS ITS PARENT (established by Jewish/British bankers, 100 years ago) – SAUDI ARABIA. SAUDI ARABIA AND THE TERROR GROUPS SPAWNED THEY ARE THE GUTTER SCRAPINGS OF ISLAM – EQUAL IN ALL RESPECTS TO THE ZIONIST DISEASE.

“Israel can shape its strategic environment, in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq — an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right”

“Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor (9/11 – PERFECTION). Domestic politics and industrial policy will shape the pace and content of transformation as much as the requirements of current missions.” (p 63)

AMERICA’S “RASPUTINS” RESPONSIBLE FOR PLANNING THE LAST 15 YEARS OF DEATH – JEWISH ZIONISTS ALL……………

No one is demanding war with Russia and very, very few people want war with Syria.

tapatio

Wherry’s drivel is LUDICROUS. HELLary Clinton wants the US to impose an ILLEGAL “no-fly zone” over Syria so that the Empire’s mercenary terrorists can complete the destruction of that country. Washington knows that, with Russia invited to aid Syria in its defense against the terrorists, the billions of dollars poured into the attack on that country will be lost and Syria will stand as a SOVEREIGN nation – free from domination by Washington’s Rothschild-Bilderberg Predatory Empire masters.

Luckily, so far, opposition to the destruction of the world for the profit of Judeo-Naz! bankers has been sufficient to stop Washinton’s aggression.

James Wherry

Demanding that the Syrians and the Russians and their massacre in Aleppo is not the same thing as waging war on Russia or Syria. While the north Atlantic Treaty organization had the ability to impose their will and coast of O and Bosnia to save the Muslims there, get does not have any such ability in the Arabian Peninsula.

tapatio

When the Empire’s mercenaries are hiding among civilians, Syria and Russia must either accept terrorist control of Aleppo or accept that civilian casualties will be high.

After all, the precedent was set by the terror bombings of Dresden, Cologne, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those were, IN NO WAY, military targets.

Washington and its Rothschild-Bilderberg masters are simply upset that their invasion of a sovereign nation was a failure. Hopefully, with Russian and other aid, Assad will be able to rebuild the secular, free country that was Syria before Assad rejected dominance by the Empire.

One of these days, karmic justice will meet the Rothschilds and all of their sycophants – right down to James Wherry – and humanity will finally be free of these predatory animals.

James Wherry

Fine: I’ll expect you to judge Israel the same way: to root out the terrorists in Gaza, expect a high number of civilian casualties.

Syria and Iran spent years paying and supporting al-Quaeda and let them use their territories to attack American troops. This is blowback: karma is already working.

Evil_Annie_2015

The conspiracy theorists do not understand what a “double standard” is and will never see beyond what they perceive to be the hidden truth. They hate the US and Israel no matter what and blame them for all the problems in the world.

James Wherry

Understood. TAPATIO really is a Jew hating NAZ! who has praised the NAZ! Party of WWII Germany for the Holocaust.

Like Hitler before him, TAPATIO goes on about Jewish bankers.

tapatio

NO SHERLOCK, SH!THEAD

Below is the Rothschild-Bilderberg Predatory Capitalist Cartel – at the root of the corruption that has taken control of our country, its government, media and commerce. Until that corruption is rooted out and eradicated, America will continue to sicken and, eventually, die.
These same Rothschilds, that hold controlling interest in the Federal Reserve today, also were patrons of Karl Marx and directed-financed the Bolshevik-Communist “revolution”. That one family name has been connected to more death and horror, over the last 300 years, than ALL other causes combined. The Rothschilds are, of course, Jewish.

(note: The list linked above includes only Central Banks in which the Rothschild/Bilderberg Cartel holds controlling interest. They also hold controlling interest in virtually every major
commercial and investment bank on Earth)

The cartoons in this post are not “racist” because they are accurate caricatures of Jacob Rothschild and the star of david is the icon of Zionism – a political movement. It is also a reality that the vast majority of the leaders of this predatory cartel are from that ONE cult that comprises only 2/10ths of one percent of the world’s population, but provides a large double-digit percentage of the world’s criminals and two-legged predators.

James Wherry

Once again, the “evil Jewish banker” argument- it’s the same argument for “collective punishment” of the Jews that YOU and HITLER both made.

You speak and think like Hitler.

tapatio

The defenders of Gaza are not “terrorists”. They are fighting for their homes and their families – no different from those that defended the Warsaw Ghetto.

The TERRORIST mercenaries attacking Syria are employed by the same SUB-HUMANS that employ you, Wherry. The ONLY difference is that the terrorist lackeys will be eradicated before your sort.

You can sit and squeal your Zionist lies all you want. You aren’t so stupid as to not realize that the tide is turning against your masters and, when the time comes, your treason against humanity and perversion will be addressed directly.

James Wherry

Hamas and ISIL and al-Quaeda and Islamic Jihad – all operating in Gaza – are not fighting to “defend” anything: their stated goal is to destroy Israel by attacked my every man, woman and child and killing them – just like YOU wanted them to do.

tapatio

THIS IS JUDAISM in Palestine…………….

A cult capable of committing, supporting and defending the crimes below IS A DISEASE and should be eradicated from this Earth …………….

What’s up with you Americans? Do you believe Russia needs some of “your brand of freedom” now?
Really? How has that attitude worked out for you in that region so far?
If not, why are you allowing elites/Zionists/war profiteers and Wall Street to start what very well could be the FINAL war on this planet? Such a fascist warmongering nation, built on nothing but fear and hatred of others….and I’m not talking about Russia.
I truly want to believe it’s just a fascist government out of control and not the citizens of the country, but I don’t see you rising up and stopping it from happening. So again citizens of the US, what’s up?

tapatio

It is NOT “we Americans”. 90% of Americans are as badly informed as the pet dogs. The same predatory capitalists that control “our” government, also own our media and economy. The American public has been manipulated for 50 years.

ignasi

If we can because we now know how.
Now we know solutions to the November examinations.
War destroys social solutions.
We are millions, we are a giant that brings solutions.

Nofearorfavor

Yes, Yes, Yes!!! Ignasi, you have the right name — Ignite the people with your strength. The wonderful journalist who wrote this magnificent essay, I can even see from her picture what a special spirit she is– don’t let her inspiring words go waste. As they say, find a way and save the day! Why don’t you write a letter to President Putin… Seriously, why don’t you??? He is accessible you know… he’s a peoples president.

Nofearorfavor

Please Americans– visit the Valdai Club… yes it is Russian– but this club is a platform consisting of a myriad of global professionals- political scientists and analysts, global journalists — veritably a think tank representative of all critical thinkers on the planet. In my opinion it is so worth a visit — of spending time there, if you are as deeply concerned as so many others about the state of our world, of our children and grandchildren’s futures….

Be warned! The implacable intransigence of the vampire elite controlling the USA and the Zionist thugdoms will only come to the Valdai Club to subvert it or co-opt it..

(Note that ‘vampire’ is a psychologically descriptive term not designating eyeteeth length,)

Nofearorfavor

My comment was actually directed at ordinary folks… not the vampires and global bankster gangster thugs — Fareed Zakaria interviewed Putin at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) and it was most interesting… but unfortunately the version you guys received was cut– not the full version… Not so easy any more to subvert and co-opt– the cabal’s greatest fear is and has always been those they refer to as the sheeple– the useless eaters uniting and standing up against what now is becoming the cabal’s outright tyranny. But at the least, your descriptive comment gave me a good laugh…

TecumsehUnfaced

Just pointing out who will be among your visitors, of which I’m sure you’re already cognizant.

I watched the CNN Zakaria-Putin interview. You say that was a cut version? I imagine that the best part was cut out. So, if you can point us to the complete iinterview, I would be thankful.

If my being accurate provides you laughter, I will indulge further later.

Yes, there’s hope, but the extent of the Mockingbird media is always expanding. AlterNet is lost by the increasingly corrupt policies of Don Hazen, and TruthDig keeps publishing CIA agent Juan Cole and Hillary shill Robert Reich.

tapatio

Thanks, you’re right.

Nofearorfavor

If only you guys knew how much you’re all in our thoughts– you’d literally feel the waves of our energy bouncing across the Atlantic! I live in a country where most of the people don’t even own a television, many of the older ones not schooled at all, sign their names with a cross– yet it is these people, who ask me, what in the name of God is happening in America? — unbelievable as it may sound, they listen on neighbours’ sets or at their closest spaza shop (which is like a general dealer)– they listen on their little radios, when they have one… their verdict about the racial tensions in the US: “It is not the ordinary whites that are behind this, its the bad people who is making all this trouble– to make different races hate each other, we must not allow them to do it, but stand together and fight them.” — Simple people Tapatio, but good people, they have so little yet would give you the last tattered coat on their back. Putin is a man of great depth and he cares genuinely for people, that’s why most in his nation love him– so I think in some way he will be guided to somehow avoid this terrible war which your Zionist ideology infiltrated government is so determined to wage at all costs against Russia. God be with you and yours– Find solace in solitude, give your awful worries to the Man upstairs– he knows your every thought– I am not into religion, but I know that when we turn to Him, He is always there waiting. Who else do we have to turn to anyway, but the One most of us neglect the most?

tapatio

Thank you. You are correct, our country is controlled by bankers and industrialists, with no consciences. The Zionist ideology is NOT ours. It is a way of thinking promoted by the media (which is capitalist/Zionist owned) to make the people compliant with the predatory capitalists.
I wish we had leaders like Putin in America. Our “leaders” are traitors to the United States and care about nothing more than serving their predatory capitalist masters. I doubt that Putin is a very nice person, but he cares about his country and is not a sociopath.

I understand and share your feelings about God. I don’t discuss religion because it is too personal.

You must be in South Africa. My brother-in-law grew up there and my wife reminded me that spaza was what we call a “mom & pop grocery”.

Thank you for your response. It is one that I will save.

Nofearorfavor

You clearly are a very special family… enjoyed our interaction … kindred souls. All the best.

tapatio

And to you.

Jeff Weinberger

Thanks, Mint Press! I also urge your readers to check out the excellent journalism of people like Vanessa Beeley and Eva Bartlett, who’ve been on the ground in Syria and doing a wonderful job exposing what’s really going on in places like Aleppo, as well as the US’s ties to a range of nefarious allies in the region. it seems undeniable that the US stands with terrorists towards the aim of further enhancing and entrenching its control of the Middle East.

TecumsehUnfaced

Terrorists and false flags are tools of U.S. policy.

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Nofearorfavor

Thank you for making this Call To Action. I sit in South Africa, where issues don’t look too good either… more behind what is happening here than mere student protests for fees to fall…

Nofearorfavor

A question to Mint Press– but much in ignorance, so please forgive me — With regard to your Call To Action, is it not perhaps an idea to launch a global <> petition and to lend weight to it, perhaps if Mint Press and 21st Century Wire, Vineyard of The Saker etc…many excellent alternative media sites are available– band together and approach organisations such as RootsAction.org and perhaps also Rick Rozoff (Stop Nato)– and big names like Paul Craig Roberts, Michel Chossudovsky (Global Research), John Pilger, F.William Engdahl, Phil Butler, Mike Whitney, Jim Stone, Jim Dean, Gordon Duff, Jean Perier, Martin Berger– all often writing for journal.neo.org — What about NEO itself? I mentioned but a few and although aware that you guys know them all, if they back such a global petition, which is not only applies to the USA, but the global community, surely we’d generated not only millions but billions of signatories who are Anti-War! If Americans are slower to sign, due to the pressure on them of perhaps being singled out as subversive elements, when they witness how many of their brothers and sisters abroad support them, they will not only sign the petition, but take to the street like they did in 2013 (think it was) when they called for No War with Syria etc…

I realize that to organize a genuine independent grassroots global petition, takes some doing, but I am sure within the ranks of the organizations and people I mentioned, the know-how exists and support will be total, because the dangers of a global war our world is again facing– perhaps even a nuclear war– everyday seems more imminent.

TeeJae

When I click the link (or type it into my browser) for journal.neo.org, it says the website cannot be found. Do you know of another url for it?

These people have lost touch with reality in their quest for a one world anything. It is time we stand up, and we do it by sitting down. Boycott work, boycott the grocery stores, boycott the gas stations. boycott buying anything on line, and definitely boycott TV and everything coming out of Hollywood.
2 weeks people. In 2 weeks we can bring this whole stinking pile of human excrement down, bring in the financial reset that’s vital to our very survival, then establish a new America with no federal anything, but a posse to hunt down those who have done this world so much harm.
Local, local, local, and let karma do the rest. (But help it along by staying angry!!!)

Oct 13, 2016 US AIR FORCE CAUGHT REPAINTING SEVERAL JETS TO APPEAR RUSSIAN

Last week, a Canadian journalist published pictures of the US Air Force repainting their F/A-18 jets to match the paint scheme of Russian jets currently deployed in Syria. Though the journalist, Christian Borys, suggested that the unusual paint job was due to standard military “aggressor squadrons” war-games meant to simulate engaging “the enemy,” some have speculated it could be proof of an imminent false flag meant to justify US “boots on the ground” in Syria.

As well you should. 9/23/1975 Tom Charles Huston Church Committee Testimony

Tom Charles Huston testified before the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, commonly known as the Church Committee, on the 43-page plan he presented to the President Nixon and others on ways to collect information about anti-war and “radical” groups, including burglary, electronic surveillance, and opening of mail.

The recent devastating car bombing in Mogadishu has been blamed by Somali officials on the terrorist group al-Shabab. But the violence (and famine) that have beset Somalia have deeper roots — decades of imperialism and intervention, and use of Somalia as a staging grounds for the “war on terror.”

Buried among statistics on gun profits and lobbying efforts is the terrifying reality of just how unique America’s gun obsession and associated violence are. And the equally terrifying plan by the NRA to “normalize” gun possession in nearly every nook and cranny of American life.

U.S. campaigns for regime change characteristically focus on the “madness” of the “dictators” to be toppled. In the case of North Korea, the narrative is spiced by the country’s developing nuclear capabilities — which North Korea views as its main line of defense against . . . regime change.

Aung Su Kyi, the leader of Myanmar, has been accused of “legitimizing genocide” against the country’s Rohingya Muslims, despite being a Nobel Prize laureate. Her country’s military has massacred thousands of Rohingya, leading some to call for Kyi’s Nobel Prize to be revoked.